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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
periodically a stranger will dump a *long* rant into my DMs about something that’s bothering them a lot and i never quite know what to do with it. i don’t have anything like a consistent policy, so far i reply or not based on gut instinct
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
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one of the funnier symptoms of anxious attachment from the attachment course is “talks too much and goes off on tangents a lot” and i’ve been thinking about that i think this is an attempt to process past stuff that doesn’t really get a chance to complete most of the time
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
i bet the rants are probably helpful to write down even if i don’t reply. seems kinda fun acuallyit would be interesting to experiment with writing rants (that i don’t send) to... people i really respect or admire? to god? to my parents? idk
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Visa ✈️ SF (Aug 2-14)
@visakanv
Yes! I’ve done almost 800 of these over at
@1000wordvomits
and I credit this with being basically the primary source of my emotional/psychological development and maturity. I write for my future self, ie past Visa wrote for me and I carry him in my heart
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
yeah i’m increasingly taking your example here seriously. i don’t think people understand what a big deal the sheer volume of your writing is even though you talk about it all the time lol
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Visa ✈️ SF (Aug 2-14)
@visakanv
Yea: If an athlete or a musician practiced regularly for 10 years and then casually spoke about being proficient, we tend to respect that. When someone does this with introspective journaling, a lot of people kinda dismiss it. There’s something interesting about that
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Visa ✈️ SF (Aug 2-14)
@visakanv
It could be that I’m still a little bit short of producing the work that really changes people’s mind on this, but I’ve noticed similar patterns of prolificacy in say, SSC, WaitButWhy, patio11, Morgan Housel, etc. People who think/write clearly and confidently in a grounded way
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
SSC is a great example for me bc i know how far back his writing goes; he has a whole previous LJ that already had good content on it and/but you can clearly trace the maturation of his voice and thinking over time. ACX is his third blog now (that i know of)
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